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And it looks like he may do prison time:
NEW YORK — Disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner on Friday pled guilty to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor, part of a sexting scandal that forced him out of office.
Weiner appeared in Manhattan federal court where he agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison.
The judge also told him he would have to register as a sex offender.
Weiner, 52, has been released on bail pending his sentencing on September 8.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating Weiner for more than a year after he was accused of sending sexually inappropriate messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
The investigation led FBI agents to seize his laptop computer, which led to the discovery of a new cache of emails that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had sent to Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife.
In a statement, Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in part, "Weiner’s conduct was not only reprehensible, but a federal crime, one for which he is now convicted and will be sentenced. We thank the FBI and the NYPD for their work in this investigation."
In October, just days before the election, FBI director James Comey stunned the country by announcing that his agency was reopening its closed investigation into Clinton's handling of State Department business on a private email server so it could analyze the newly discovered correspondence.
That inquiry was brief. Comey announced shortly before the election that the new emails contained nothing to change his view that Clinton could not be charged with a crime. But Clinton partly blamed her election loss to Republican Donald Trump on Comey's announcement.
Source:
http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/new...ral-court.html
NEW YORK — Disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner on Friday pled guilty to a charge of transmitting sexual material to a minor, part of a sexting scandal that forced him out of office.
Weiner appeared in Manhattan federal court where he agreed not to appeal any sentence between 21 and 27 months in prison.
The judge also told him he would have to register as a sex offender.
Weiner, 52, has been released on bail pending his sentencing on September 8.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been investigating Weiner for more than a year after he was accused of sending sexually inappropriate messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
The investigation led FBI agents to seize his laptop computer, which led to the discovery of a new cache of emails that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had sent to Huma Abedin, Weiner's wife.
In a statement, Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim said in part, "Weiner’s conduct was not only reprehensible, but a federal crime, one for which he is now convicted and will be sentenced. We thank the FBI and the NYPD for their work in this investigation."
In October, just days before the election, FBI director James Comey stunned the country by announcing that his agency was reopening its closed investigation into Clinton's handling of State Department business on a private email server so it could analyze the newly discovered correspondence.
That inquiry was brief. Comey announced shortly before the election that the new emails contained nothing to change his view that Clinton could not be charged with a crime. But Clinton partly blamed her election loss to Republican Donald Trump on Comey's announcement.
Source:
http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/new...ral-court.html
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